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113th
Ohio Regiment Infantry

Online Books113th
Ohio Infantry Soldier Roster - Official Roster of the Soldiers of the
State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, Volume 8, by Ohio
Roster Commission (Joseph B. Foraker, Governor, James S. Robinson, Sec'y of
State and H. A. Axline, Adjutant-General), 1886
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Regimental History

One Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry. — Cols., James A.
Wilcox, John G. Mitchell; Lieut. -Cols., Darius B. Warner, Toland Jones;
Majs., L. Starling Sullivant, Otway Watson. This regiment, with the
exception of Cos., I and K, was organized at Camps Chase and Zanesville,
from Oct. 10 to Dec. 12, 1862. Co. I, formerly a company of the 109th
Ohio infantry, was organized at Camp Dennison, Dec. 1, 1862, and Co. K
at Urbana and Columbus, from Dec. 8, 1863, to March 31, 1864, all to
serve for three years. In Dec, 1862, the regiment was ordered to
Louisville, where danger was expected from the Morgan raid, and,
although the organization was incomplete, in 2 hours it was on its way,
finely equipped. After a few months spent in Kentucky it was ordered to
Tennessee and in Sept., 1863, after a wearisome and trying march over
the mountains, the regiment bore a distinguished part in the sanguinary
battle of Chickamauga, being brought into action in the afternoon of the
second day at the most critical point and moment. It was a bloody
baptism for the regiment, as its loss was 138 officers and men out of
382. It moved to the relief of Knoxville and endured all the sufferings
and trials of the campaign. Then the monotony of the winter was broken
only by an occasional reconnoissance, until the regiment moved on the
Atlanta campaign. It was in action at Resaca, Dallas and Kennesaw
mountain. In the last named engagement the regiment formed the first
line of assault and consequently lost heavily, the casualties being 10
officers and 153 men. In the numerous engagements around Atlanta the
regiment was not actively concerned except at Peachtree creek, though it
was always present and almost always exposed to the fire of the
sharpshooters. It joined Sherman in his "march to the sea ;"
participated in the siege of Savannah ; shared in all the labors and
glories of the campaign in the Carolinas ; was severely engaged at
Bentonville, fighting hand-to-hand and during the heaviest of the battle
leaping the breastworks to repel assaults from either direction. This
was its last battle and it was mustered out on July 6, 1865.

Footnotes:Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2